NAPLES ORCHID SOCIETY SCHOLARSHIP/INTERNSHIP INFORMATION
For The Enhancement Of Orchid Knowledge
The Naples Orchid Society offers a $2000 annual scholarship to be awarded to a qualified student pursuing a program in Botany, Conservation or Environmental Science. Preference will be given, but not limited, to a student studying/working in SW Florida on a worthy orchid related project. The Scholarship may also be used to fund, or partially fund, an internship at an appropriate organization.
Applications will be accepted at any time, but the Scholarship will be awarded at the Naples Orchid Society regular meeting in October (for a student at a college or university working on a project) or May/June (for a person on a summer internship), or at another time as deemed appropriate by the Naples Orchid Society Board of Directors.
- Click here to apply online. (Click here to download a practice form in PDF format.)
- Click here to download the application in Microsoft Word.
Depending upon the nature of the project, the scholarship will be awarded in two parts: $1000 initially and another $1000 half way through the project or internship, following the submission of an interim progress report.
Applications will be reviewed by a Scholarship Committee appointed by the Naples Orchid Society Board of Directors and a recommendation made to the Board of Directors. The selected applicant will be asked to meet with the Board, if possible, and even present the results of his/her study to a general membership meeting if appropriate.
- Please reference our Scholarship Brochure for more information.
John McCormick and Haleigh Ray, both students at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois, were recipients of the NOS scholarship for 2011. They worked under the supervision of Dr. Lawrence Zettler, Professor of Biology and Director of the Orchid Recovery Program at Illinois College. Their project, during June and July, 2011, involved monitoring and surveying native epiphytic orchids in the Panther Wildlife Preserve near Naples for infection of scale insects and identifying the scale insects to genus.
John McCormick, left and Dr. Lawrence Zettler, right, support Haleigh Ray as she collects research samples from a native orchid plant in the Fakahatchee Strand
Haleigh Ray studies samples collected in the field to determine types of insect activity on native orchids in the Fakahatchee Strand.